30+ Sugar Free Dessert Recipes for Diabetics
By Carine Claudepierre
Published on 07/17/2014 - Last updated on 04/03/2024
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Discover our collection of sugar-free desserts for people with diabetes!
Finally, a place to indulge with delicious cookies, brownies, pies, or mousse with no guilt.
Plus, all recipes are keto desserts made with low-carb flour and sugar-free sweeteners to keep your blood sugar level on track. So keep reading!
Are Keto Recipes Good For Diabetics?
The Ketogenic diet and a diet to manage your diabetes have something in common. They are trying to reduce the intake of carbohydrates. Their goals, however, are slightly different. If you just started the keto diet, you know that your goal is to be in ketosis.
Ketosis is a metabolic state where your body turns your stored fat into ketones and uses them as energy sources. Since you have reduced your blood glucose, the muscles, brain, and other tissues in your body use these ketones,
With diabetes, the goal is different. Your body doesn’t produce enough insulin. Insulin is responsible for helping to store blood glucose for later use. As a result, people with diabetes tend to have very high blood glucose levels.
So the goal of managing diabetes is to keep that blood sugar level low. This is done through the consumption of low Glycemic Index (GI) / low GL (Glycemic Load) foods.
There has been some research to try to understand if the Keto diet can be useful for people with diabetes.
- For Type 1 diabetes, the Keto diet might help manage A1C levels and glycemic control. But it is absolutely essential to talk to your doctor before starting.
- For Type 2 diabetes, it is now well-known that the Keto diet can have very positive effects.
What Are Sugar-Free Desserts For Diabetics?
Diabetic dessert recipes are low-carb, sugar-free desserts.
Obviously, desserts for diabetics don’t impact the blood sugar level as much as regular desserts as they contain no sugar. Are keto recipes good for diabetics?
How To Make Desserts For People With Diabetes
3 main ingredients help you create delicious diabetic-friendly desserts.
Low-carb flour
First, low-carb flour if it’s a cake or a cookie. As a result, low-carb, diabetic dessert recipes often use almond flour, coconut flour, or seed meals like flaxseed meals.
In fact, white-wheat flour is high in carbs and acts like sugar in your body.
As a result, low-carb, diabetic dessert recipes are made of high-fiber flours that don’t impact blood sugar levels.
Baking for diabetics means using low-carb flour but also healthy, low-GI sweeteners.
Low-carb sweeteners
Next, the choice of sugar-free sweeteners is crucial to keep diabetic-friendly desserts low in carbs.
It should be noted that depending on your diabetes type, your choice of sweetener can vary.
The sweeteners listed below are approved for type 1 diabetes and keto desserts.
- Sugar-alcohols like erythritol. This is a very healthy sugar-free alternative made of fermented sugar. There is no alcohol or sugar left in the product at the end. However, it can be used in a 1:1 ratio to replace sugar in the recipe.
- Monk fruit crystal
- Monk fruit maple-flavored syrup
- Stevia drops
- Xylitol
Indeed these 4 sugar-free sweeteners don’t impact blood sugar and have a near-zero glycemic index.
On the other hand, sweeteners like honey, maple syrup, and coconut sugar have higher sugar content.
They should not be recommended in diabetes desserts.
Healthy fat
Finally, healthy fats help stabilize sugar-level when combined with protein. It can be listed as healthy fat, avocado, coconut oil, olive oil, and seed oil.
30+ Diabetic Dessert Recipes
All these sugar-free cake recipes for diabetics are low in carbs and 100% gluten-free.
Keto Vanilla Cake
This keto vanilla cake is the most delicious, moist, and buttery diabetic-friendly birthday cake. This is the most popular dessert for people with diabetes on this blog!
Keto Lemon Pound Cake
This delicious lemon cake contains only 3.9 grams of net carbs per slice, and it is a delicious treat with a cup of tea. A delicious diabetic dessert!
Keto Red Velvet Cake
This is the best keto red velvet cake recipe with a smooth crumb and delicious vanilla, cocoa, and buttermilk flavor.
Keto Blueberry Cobbler
Sweet, baked blueberries topped with a buttery, moist and crispy keto almond flour biscuit.
Keto Coconut Cake
This is the best keto coconut cake recipe, a moist, soft, fluffy crumb with an intense coconut flavor. This sugar-free dessert has creamy coconut frosting and crispy toasted coconut on top.
Keto Vanilla Mug Cake
This keto vanilla mug cake is a moist, single-serve almond flour mug cake, gluten-free, dairy-free, and paleo-friendly.
Keto Cinnamon Coffee Cake
An easy, moist, buttery keto cinnamon coffee cake topped with a sweet, crunchy walnut streusel.
Keto Chocolate Cake
This almond flour chocolate cake is the best easy keto chocolate cake for birthday parties!
Keto Snickerdoodle Cookies
Keto snickerdoodles are soft keto cookies with a unique cinnamon flavor and only 1.4g of net carbs per cookie.
Chocolate Avocado Cake
The chocolate avocado cake is a healthy fudgy keto gluten-free cake. A 100% Sugar-free, Low-Carb, and Paleo, easy diabetes dessert.
Coconut Flour Crepes
Chocolate Avocado Pudding
This chocolate avocado pudding ticks all the diet requirements. Not only is it a delicious sugar-free dessert for diabetics, but it is also dairy! An easy healthy sweet treat, 100% sugar-free sweetened with sugar-free maple-flavored syrup. It makes a silky smooth low-carb keto chocolate pudding, perfect as a diabetic baking dessert.
Keto Cream Pie
Raspberry Crumble Bars
A delicious gluten-free dessert with only 7 grams of net carbs per slice made with coconut flour and chia seed jam.
Low-Carb Peanut Butter Cookies
Low-carb peanut butter cookies almond flour, coconut oil, sugar-free. 100% easy keto gluten-free cookies with no eggs.
No-Bake Cookie Dough Bars
Cookie dough bars no-bake healthy peanut butter chocolate chip bars with only 5 ingredients. 100% keto, low carb, sugar-free, gluten-free, and vegan.
Sugar-Free Shortbread Cookies
Almond Meal Easy Healthy Keto Vegan Cookies NO eggs, NO sugar NO dairy. Only 4.4 g net carbs per large cookie.
Sugar-Free Fudgy Avocado Brownie
Fudgy Avocado Brownies are sugar-free one-bowl brownies sweetened with erythritol and ready in 20 minutes!
Sugar-free Lemon Pie with Coconut Almond Pastry Crust
A delicious sugar-free lemon pie with a low-carb pie crust made of coconut flour and almond meal. It’s a super easy diabetic baking recipe!
Protein Crepes
Protein crepes are healthy low carb high protein gluten-free breakfast crepes made of 3 simple ingredients. A sweet clean eating recipe perfect for breakfast or post-workout.
No-Bake Key Lime Avocado Pie
Avocado key lime pie is vegan, no-bake, and low carb. Healthy raw desserts with a coconut almond and cashew crust with no dates!
Chocolate Mug-Cake With Coconut Flour
A 90-second low-carb mug cake made with low-carb flours and sweetened with stevia powder. Quick and easy sugar-free desserts for people with diabetes.
Chocolate Avocado Cookies
Chocolate avocado cookies are healthy fudgy chocolate cookies made of 5 simple ingredients 100% gluten-free, low carb, paleo, and sugar-free.
Low Carb Lemon Cookies
Melt-in-your-mouth lemon cookies with coconut flour and almond meal, easy, healthy soft cookies with no butter. 100% Vegan, Keto, and Gluten-free.
Sugar-free Bounty Bars
Low carb bounty bars are raw healthy homemade candy bars 100% Keto + Sugar-free + paleo made of 4 ingredients.
Chocolate Chia Seed Pudding
Ground chia seed pudding with Almond milk is a smooth chocolate peanut butter healthy dessert or breakfast. Easy, gluten-free, vegan, low carb, keto, and whole30!
Sugar-Free Floating Island
A protein-loaded dessert made of eggs, milk, and naturally sweetened with stevia. Only 3 ingredients for a delicious, comforting sugar-free diabetes-friendly dessert.
Cinnamon Mug Cake
Low Carb cinnamon mug cake with almond flour, 90 seconds microwave recipe. Keto mug cake taste like a cinnamon roll in a mug.
Keto Pumpkin Mug Cake
An easy Keto Pumpkin Mug cake, delicious as a Fall breakfast, and ready in only 90 seconds!
Keto Zucchini Cake
A moist, gluten-free keto zucchini cake with wonderful spices flavors and crunchy pecans.
Keto Zucchini Chocolate Chip Cookies
Soft, fluffy keto zucchini chocolate chip cookies loaded with crunchy pecan, sugar-free chocolate chips, and spices for an amazing sweet keto breakfast.
Keto Strawberry Mug Cake
A moist vanilla cake with juicy strawberries and even better with a dollop of unsweetened whipped cream on top.
Coconut Flour Peanut Butter Cookies
Those coconut flour peanut butter cookies with chocolate chips are easy 6 ingredients cookies keto, gluten-free and sugar-free.
Low-Carb Vegan Brownies
Low-carb almond flour brownies are an easy healthy sugar-free vegan brownie recipe with a deliciously fudgy texture.
No-Bake Keto Peanut Butter Pie
A creamy no-bake peanut butter mousse pie with a chocolate crust.
Keto Banana Pudding
An easy thick, smooth banana pudding with less than 1 gram of net carbs per serving.
Keto Brownies
The easiest keto brownie recipe, super fudgy, and made with almond flour.
Keto Crepes
Almond Flour Cupcakes
Nothing better than moist fluffy diabetic-friendly vanilla cupcakes to celebrate.
Conclusion
I hope you have found all the sugar-free dessert recipes for diabetics that you wanted.
To go further, use my Recipe Search to find other low-carb recipes for a low-GI dessert or any other meal!
About The Author
Hi, I'm Carine, the food blogger, author, recipe developer, published author of a cookbook, and founder of Sweet As Honey.
I have an Accredited Certificate in Nutrition and Wellness obtained in 2014 from Well College Global (formerly Cadence Health). I'm passionate about sharing all my easy and tasty recipes that are both delicious and healthy. My expertise in the field comes from my background in chemistry and years of following a keto low-carb diet. But I'm also well versed in vegetarian and vegan cooking since my husband is vegan.
I now eat a more balanced diet where I alternate between keto and a Mediterranean Diet
Cooking and Baking is my true passion. In fact, I only share a small portion of my recipes on Sweet As Honey. Most of them are eaten by my husband and my two kids before I have time to take any pictures!
All my recipes are at least triple tested to make sure they work and I take pride in keeping them as accurate as possible.
Browse all my recipes with my Recipe Index.
I hope that you too find the recipes you love on Sweet As Honey!
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I like the ideas alot
I am a diabetic looking for good easy recipes with ingredients that are low cost & most of the stuff I have in the cupboard without all the unusual things. I love to try new recipes that my whole family can eat, my husband thinks he has to have a dessert every night & loves sweet things like me! ????
I hope you enjoy the sugar free sweet recipes on my blog. Take care. XOXO Carine.
Hello . I was wondering if you had a low carb sugar free key lime pie recipe that is easy to make and no bake? If so I would really love to have that recipe please thank you so much.
Yes sure! You can try my no bake key lime avocado pie. It is sugar free, low carb and keto approved. Enjoy the recipe and the blog! Thanks for being around. XOXO Carine.
hii mam, my brother is sugar patient and i want to cook some desert for him. can you plz tell me such desert which is healthy for him?
I am not a doctor so I don’t give recommendation on what is good for anyone. But what I can tell you is that those recipe are made 100% natural sugar free sweetener, low carb which is usually well tolerated by any person with type 2 diabetes, if eat in moderation, still a dessert! Enjoy the low carb sugar free recipes on the blog. XOXO Carine.
Hi. I tried making the zucchini tortillas for the first time this week. They did cook and sort of brown, but they did not look as golden color as the ones in your picture. Also, the inside did not seem to cook as much and was still like the batter. So the outside was dry and cooked but the inside was mostly uncooked. Where did I go wrong? I want to try it again!
Hi Mylene, my first question will be did you substitute any ingredient in the recipe? If the outside is cooking faster it probably means that the center of the tortillas was thicker in the center. Also another thing could be that you did not squeeze out all the water from the zucchini leaving some moisture in the batter that make it harder to cook. Finally if it is not golden and the outside crisp too fast it could be a too warm oven. Always cook on fan bake mode to ensure that the tortillas cook well evenly. I hope this help! It is a delicious recipe and I make it all the time without any issue so it should work for you too 🙂 See you soon on the blog Mylene.
Thank you very much for this lovely feedback on my blog, it makes me very happy. I am so glad your girl enjoy what she read here. Have a lovely time making my recipes. XOXO Carine.